Carol Williams, Civic Organist
Hector Olivera, and his "Unique Orchestra"
August 25, 2003

2003 Summer Organ Festival

Spreckels Organ Society
Carol Williams, Artistic Director
Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego

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Hector Olivera played the Roland® Atelier® AT-90s Organ and Carol Williams the Spreckels Austin Pipe Organ. It was a perfect match and a grand performance that brought the 3,300-strong crowd to its feet.

Carol played Allegro deciso by Marcel Dupre, Toccata by Marcel Paponaud, and These Foolish Things by Jack Strachey. Hector demonstrated the amazing versatility of the Atelier with performances of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Bach's Fugue in G and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Together they meshed pipe and orchestral Atelier with Guilmant's Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42. For an encore; Carol and Hector teamed up again with Widor's Toccata.

The Spreckels Organ is an outdoor 4,518-pipe organ that has been in continuous use since 1915.

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